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...BELLE OF 14TH STREET (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). Barbra Streisand stars in this musical special that brings back the golden days of vaudeville with help from John Bubbles and Jason Robards, making his singing debut...
...Jack E. Leonard. Though the caliber of guests only occasionally rises to a Bob Hope, it is also true that Douglas' program has become a profitable showcase for new talent. The producers boast that Comic Bill Cosby got his first national TV break on the show and that Barbra Streisand did her bit there a year before Funny Girl. A good deal of the show time, however, is devoted to warmed-over smorgasbord: Arthur Godfrey demonstrates his recipe for beans de luxe, Cassius Clay trades a few playful punches with Douglas...
...wonderful hit Hello, Dolly! Not only that, I have signed Dorothy Lamour for a twelve week stand as Dolly at the Riviera in Las Vegas. That brings to eleven the number of you broads who have played, are playing and will play the role. I'm not counting Barbra Streisand, who will do the movie next year because-well, Hollywood just isn't legit. Besides, I only had a piece of Funny Girl...
...Herbert Ross yelled "Go, go!" and off she went-about 30 yds. along Manhattan's Pier 36, lurching like a sozzled sailor under the encumbrance of an ankle-length wool dress, high heels, a suitcase and makeup kit. It was one more rollicking day in the life of Barbra Streisand, movie star, and at that point the 25-year-old singer had staggered for an hour through the same one-minute scene in Funny Girl without getting it right. "My back hurts; my feet hurt!" yelled Streisand from her perch on a tugboat. "Now, now," consoled Producer Ray Stark...
...APPELLE BARBRA (Columbia). Rue Streisand runs into Place Pigalle on her latest disk, which takes its flavor from an assortment of French songs (Autumn Leaves, Clopln dopant) arranged by Michael Legrand and sung, partly in English partly in French, by the Berlitz bombe. It may be gout americain, but it is still champagne...